Understanding Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities (2nd Edition)

Product Description

Understanding Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities, second edition is the most current and applied characteristics text on the market. Foundational and “Knowledge to Practice” chapters will prepare future teachers to understand and teach those students with a wide range of physical, health and multiple disabilities most commonly encountered in the classroom, realize the educational implications of the disabilities, and learn key ways to apply book content to teaching practice.  The text allows future teachers to come away with the best preparation for providing a safe, healthy school environment and an effective teaching environment for children with physical, health, and multiple disabilities.

Features

• In-depth knowledge in an understandable format covering a wide-range of physical, health, and multiple disabilities commonly found in the school setting, including neuromotor impairments, orthopedic and musculoskeletal impairments, sensory loss, degenerative and terminal illness, health impairments, and infectious diseases.
• Provides students with information they will need to know to provide a safe, healthy school environment and an effective teaching environment for children with physical, health, and multiple disabilities.
• The beginning section of the book provides foundation chapters on understanding disabilities and effective teaming; learning and behavioral characteristics; and motor development, characteristics, and interventions.
• Allows students to gain fundamental knowledge and skills on addressing students' physical, health and educational needs which can be applied to a wide range of disabilities.
• Each disability specific chapter uniformly covers the following areas: description of the disability, dynamics, characteristics, detection, treatment, course, and educational implications (including meeting physical/sensory needs, communication needs, learning needs, daily living needs, and psychosocial/behavioral needs).
• Provides students a consistent framework to read through the chapter with ease.
• Each book section has a "knowledge to practice" chapter that provides practical information relating to the disabilities in that section (e.g., the section on neuromotor impairments has a "knowledge to practice" chapter on assistive technology considerations).
• The "knowledge to practice" chapters allow students to apply the information they learned in the previous chapters to a content area that they will need to address in the school setting (e.g., assistive technology, classroom adaptations, coping with degenerative illnesses, universal precautions, monitoring students and individualized healthcare plans).

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